conscientiousness

conscientious | American Dictionary

conscientious
adjective
us/ˌkɑn·ʃiˈen·ʃəs/
feeling a moral responsibility to do your work carefully and to be fair to others:
She was a conscientious worker, and I’ll miss her.

conscientious | Business English

conscientious
adjective
uk /ˌkɒnʃiˈenʃəs/us
serious about your work and putting a lot of effort into doing it in a careful way:
Greg Smith is a conscientious and dedicated worker who will be an asset to your company.

conscientiously

adverb
Employees are expected to carry out their duties conscientiously.

conscientiousness

noun[ U ]
The study examines the relationship between conscientiousness and flexibility, and their effect on performance.

Examples of conscientious

conscientious
Yet, again, even the rejection of some temptation leaves conscientious practitioners vulnerable.
For conscientious members of a community, they provide at least additional reasons for conformity to the law.
What renders a performance authentic or convincing is the degree to which it reflects the pianist's conscientious, heroic attempt at performance itself.
It thereby reinforces the willingness of conscientious members of the community.
Yet the duties and the interests that are weighed are creations of the culture in which the conscientious person lives.
Are they simply part of the "humanity factor" to be expected from even the most skilled and conscientious healthcare professionals?
As a teacher and a colleague he was apparently conscientious and accessible.
Even a call to conscientious professionalism may be difficult to hear within this culture.
She remains an overly conscientious woman with subsyndromal but not overt anxiety symptoms.
Although he occasionally allowed works implicitly critical of government policy, he appears to have been conscientious in his duties.
The most powerful objection against exempting conscientious objectors from military service is precisely that they are free-riding on others' willingness to provide a public good.
Unlike conscientious objection, civil disobedience is inimical to the state.
The only group of people who were underemployed were those who were conscientious objectors to military service.
For those less conscientious religion might in any case serve as a convenient cloak for mere factional ambitions.
These children tend to be described as generally conscientious, sensitive, insecure and anxious.
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